Original U.S. Pennsylvania Long Percussion Conversion Rifle with Set Trigger and Figured Stock - c.1840 Japanese Replica This particular pistol was captured

This particular pistol was captured along with many others by the British at the end of WW2

so it does not show where it was made

having evacuated the Philippines earlier in the war

and has a fine armory bright patina

By the time the fighting ended on Guadalcanal and the Japanese forces withdrew

Original U.S. Pennsylvania Long Percussion Conversion Rifle with Set Trigger and Figured Stock - c.1840 Japanese Replica This particular pistol was capturedOriginal Item: Only One Available. This very attractive rifle originally started life as a Flintlock long Rifle with 7 groove rifling. Around the 1840's it was converted to the Percussion cap system. It was manufactured with a "Set Trigger" consisting of two triggers, setting the the hair trigger with the rear trigger and actually discharging the rifle by barely touching the front trigger making the weapon, in capable hands, a very accurate weapon.